Behold the deed is done…
It was a real solemn affair…
All those good times when I was a kid…
Are now sealed inside that casket…
The saddest part is when they sealed the coffin forever…
Rest in peace grandma…
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Archive for Rants
Medical Aptitude Test
Rank Specialty Score
1 urology 46
2 obstetrics/gynecology 43
3 otolaryngology 41
4 thoracic surgery 41
5 occupational med 41
6 radiation oncology 41
7 ophthalmology 40
8 pathology 40
9 nuclear med 40
10 orthopaedic surgery 39
11 aerospace med 39
12 plastic surgery 39
13 general surgery 39
14 emergency med 39
15 dermatology 39
16 colon & rectal surgery 39
17 anesthesiology 39
18 infectious disease 38
19 pulmonology 38
20 neurosurgery 38
21 preventive med 37
22 physical med & rehabilitation 37
23 cardiology 37
24 hematology 37
25 gastroenterology 36
26 radiology 36
27 rheumatology 36
28 pediatrics 35
29 endocrinology 35
30 nephrology 35
31 neurology 34
32 general internal med 33
33 allergy & immunology 33
34 med oncology 32
35 psychiatry 32
36 family practice 29
Urology seems nice~~
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Mint Chocolate
Have you tried brushing your teeth, and then immediately after that you eat a piece of chocolate?
If you did, you’d get mint chocolate taste in your mouth!!
Yay!!!
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Birthday
I’m 22 this year.
All that hype last year about finally turning 21, about legally able to enter a casino, about how I could handle things with more freedom has all washed down the drain. This year’s theme is however, about getting old.
This feeling would still be there if it wasn’t for my sweet girlfriend, who spent 3 days with me, taking me on one of the best birthday journeys I could remember.
It all starts on the 16th, where she travels up to KL from Seremban, all dressed in the white flowy dress i got her for her birthday. We went down to Bukit Bintang and into a new Japanese barbecue buffet called Yaki Yaki. They serve loads of stuff ranging from beef to shishamo! I adore shishamo! With their bellies bursting full of little eggs! It’s the only way to feel a massacre!! I simply crave for beef tenderloin as well! Lightly grilled to get a very tender fillet of beef! And I’ve got the world’s most awesome cook to help me get everything just right for my taste buds to fire in all cylinders!
After stuffing ourselves silly, I went into a pharmacy and bought hair dye! Unfortunately though, it wasn’t light enough~ So the next hair dye, which is in another 3 months or so, shall be a shade in a very very very very light brown.
That night, when I was about to put my hand over my pillow on my bed, girlfriend suddenly said “you’re crushing your present!”. I was immediately dumbfounded when i found a box under the pillows with the words Bausch K. Stainless Steel Jewellery.
Now I’m quite a typical no frills XY male, but I’ve got to say, i really love the necklace and pendent she chose for me! It’s beautiful. A stainless steel chain, not too thick, so I won’t look like a fail gangster, and not too thin, so I won’t look to queer. It has a pendent, with checkers of blurred and clear steel in a shape of what i think is a whiskey bottle! It is a single most wonderful gift filled with words such as wonderful and awesome!
The next day was quite uneventful where i dyed my hair in the day. But as nightfall came, me and girlfriend went to Soho KL. There, without having anything in our stomachs, we went for a diabetic inducing, sugar rush assuring, Häagen-Dazs ice cream buffet dinner! 9 Scoops of ice cream we devoured with flavors ranging from Belgian Chocolate to Dulce de Leche. It was the sweetest moment of my life, literally, and i felt sick afterwords and I’ve vowed not to try something like that again!
Later that night, while I was in the toilet taking a dump, my housemates and my girlfriend went through the trouble of trying to surprise me. And yes, I had to admit it, I was taken aback by the sudden appearance of the 3 of them, in my bedroom, darkened with only the candle lights on the cake for illumination. We had cake, chit chat, and for my part, a very painful indigesting stomach!
That pretty much sums up my birthday this year! I really want to thank my girlfriend, for spending all that time with me! My housemates who even though had long days at work, still gave me a small surprise at the end of the day, and my family who took me out for Bubba Gump just now!
Yay I’m 22!!
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Rats
Oh, i should have published this way earlier…
I’ve chosen my supervisor to be non other then Prof Francis Achike with the research involving regional differences in perivascular adipose tissue affect on contractility of aorta.
Quite a mouthful, but i would think it would be quite an interesting topic to do since there is such little work being done in this area.
However, the fun thing about this project, is that i get to pull rat tails.
How and why you might ask?
- Grab your victim experimental subject by the tail.
- Put it on the table and cover it’s head with a cloth.
- Apply pressure on the neck of the subject with a straight object like a pair of scissors, a pen, or your thumb.
- Next, once the subject has stopped squirming about or urinated all over the place, using your hand on the tail, firmly yet professionally, apply pressure posteriorly.
- Cervical dislocation performed, and the dissection can begin.
Isn’t that kewl!!?!??!?!
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Cheers
You know that feeling? Where when you just open a door into a room full of people, and the minute those people saw you, a smile just floods over their face. They start approaching you, arms extended, grabbing your hands like a hungry third world country boy grabs UN supplies, voicing “Hey [insert name here]!! It’s been quite some time!! Why so late???”. Then you smile or laugh back at them, returning their hand shakes and their hugs as though you’ve found something that you’ve lost for a long time.
Yea… i really kinda miss that feeling. I miss that statistic where you recognize 1 in 5 people that goes pass you in school. I feel quite alienated in a very lonely place, where just very suddenly, all of my friends have just quite literally died. And there’s this voice in my heart yelling “Hey!! there’s something not quite right here…”. The halls of IMU are now littered with unfamiliar faces, all of which makes me feel more and more like a first year.
Then i kinda look back in the days where we were in our prime. Strutting the corridors as if we owned the place. In groups, we would lunch together, study together, do shit together… Now’s quite impossible to do all that, and it’s just a month since BmedScience started.
Don’t get me wrong. I still have awesome company like brain, the punjab, the pooch, the massy, and the silly girl. Of which we hang out, do shit, entertain each other, and look out for one another. And i have my houseamtes, kim, joon, sarah, kwan and a bunch of others, who just complete my campus life in IMU. However the feeling is just not quite the same anymore.
I’ve been moving from place to place frequently almost all my life, where i had to adapt to changing environments, with new friends, faces, foods, and situations. But this is the first time i am feeling this emptiness. Maybe this is because it’s the first time i’ve ever bonded so closely to my batchmates before. Or to have the privillege for having awesome people surround me. The dilution effect of friends going overseas to study is quite devastating in a sense that there’s just no one to crap with you any longer.
I miss you guys, yet
Adaptation is needed…
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Buttons
For what it’s worth, it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit… start whenever you want… you can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that stop you. I hope you feel things that you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
-Benjamin Button
Nothing’s too late in life. Start whenever you want, end whenever you want. As long as what you do makes you happy, and keeps making you feel alive. This is my new goal. Doing not what’s right, but what makes me happy. And if anyone has a problem with that, they’d just have to suck it.
Will do whatever I want now.
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Whine
Why are people so shallow sometimes?
Why is it that wearing a mask is easier than just being yourself?
Why do we need to live up to other people’s expectations?
Why can friends back stab us?
Why are backstabbers still considered friends?
Why can people take advantage of others without feeling anything?
Why is there a report card for everything?
Why can’t everyone be perfect?
Why is there racism?
Why.
Too whyney, too few answers.
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She said:
Lol~ Direct copy… but still, listen to this~
Girl, you’re my angel, you’re my darling angel
Closer than my peeps you are to me, baby
Shorty, you’re my angel, you’re my darling angel
Girl, you’re my friend when I’m in need, lady
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The Last of the Year
It’s been a long journey. Traveling through thick and thin, mending bruises and cuts, psychological attacks and crap being thrown at me. It finally comes down to this, the end of semester 5 exams.It’s sad to think that my last entry here would be a post to commemorate the hard work each and everyone of the 185 students in the batch has put into the exam. So much so, that they could not really enjoy Christmas, nor the coming new year in 24 hours time.No Christmas shopping, nor any Chinese new year clothes shopping. In fact this whole month doesn’t even seem remotely festive.
Some of us could not even get a whiff of fresh air, as we mug through the endless pile of files, filled with power point notes and PBL word documents just to claim that they have at least gone through something in preparation for the almighty test. They fire questions at each other, and depending on how much you know, could actually cause you to break down at the fact that you are in fact not ready for the exams, or euphoric as you realize that you are somehow almost competent.
Life is in black and white these days. The only technicolor days are days with my significant other and i cherish and treasure every single second i am with her. Somehow, her presense just makes this whole endeavor bearable at the very least. She listens to my troubles, and i get to listen to hers, which is for the most part for me, very stress relieving!
So this is how I am going to end my year 2008, bringing it into a sad anti climatic halt with a note of impending doom leeming above my head that is the exams. Sad…
To all my batchmates of M206, i bid thee the best of the luck in the coming exams~
To everyone else, have a wonderful new year ahead, drink safe, drive safe, bla bla bla, and of course always remember to be happy~
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